At 08:02 AM 4/11/01 -0700, I wrote:
>At 08:41 AM 4/11/2001 -0400, Clinton A . Pierce wrote:
>>On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 01:02:06PM +0100, Simon Myers wrote:
>> > Is there any searching with this? One of the things I like best is
>> > being able to do things like: [perldoc -f]
>>
>>Unfortunately, no. For this perldoc is your tool.
>
>Eh, it's not so bad. You can:
>
>1. Load the perlfunc page, do ^F and type what you're looking for;
>2. If you don't know what page it's in, do a Find File from the Explorer
>rooted at the html tree;
>3. Write a quick-and-dirty equivalent script using File::Find and put it
>in your path.
>
>I've never bothered with #3. I find #1 gets me where I want about 5-10
>seconds slower than perldoc -f.
Must not have woken up fully when I wrote this. Of course, perldoc -f
works on the command line in Windoze; the only problem is that the Windoze
pager doesn't allow searching. So the -f was a red herring. If I want to
do perldoc -f, I'll usually do it at the command line; for searching within
a particular page I find #1 to be efficient enough, and sometimes even
better than the command line version because I can scroll. If it wasn't
clear, I was talking about AS's nice HTML interface.
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Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies
